Ok guys, welcome back to Cycle Everyday.
we have a change of scenery today at the bottom of the garden,
What I want to do is show you a couple of hacks
using old inner tubes.
we have started using these and think they are brilliant
and really useful so if you want to see them
there are three hacks to show you
for the Brompton and how to use old inner tubes.l
so keep watching and we will go through the first one which isil
a bike maintenance standw
So as you can see at the moment the bike is hanging
from the inner tubes. We don't have a bike maintenance stand
and I know that we could get one but havent yet
basically we are using the inner tubes to hang the Brompton from our tree.
Yeah, and basically i think it works really well. You can spin the bike around
as you can see here.
if you want to work on it we can raise it higher or lower,
using the seat post as the inner tube is on the seat
and the handle bars as well.
so we can raise it higher or lower and its easy to work on for the gears
we can easily spin the wheels
and adjust the brakes on it.
Yeah and I think this is going to be really useful and will be using it a lot actually.
and its going to save me a bit of money not buying a maintenance stand.
and see how it goes. The next hack is
down here on the front fork
Now obviously I have these frame protectors because I was worried
about damage caused here but
I have noticed recently the damage caused here
its gone right down to the metal from the brake cable
I don't know of any protectors you can get and you might be able to get some online but
we are just using an inner tube and it's free.
so what I am doing is you can see
I have cut up a little bit of inner tube and inserted it onto the fork.
The Brompton inner tube
is the perfect size for this as it is not as wide.
obviously don't use big fat bike inner tube
because it wont fit but
the Brompton inner tube is the perfect fit for the front fork.
So all I have done is taken the wheel off,
and cut a little bit of inner tube off,
and basically slid that up the front fork.
and as you can see it actually stops it from rubbing.
I was using tape on it
and I think it looks quite tidy as well so its something I am going to be using
and see how it goes. I have used it for a while now,
for a few days
and I am going to see how it goes.
The last hack is the frame protector.
No obviously I have this frame protector but you can make one out of inner tubes.
You only really need to protect this small little bit here,
so we don't need to use a lot of inner tube.
All we are going to do is get an old inner tube
and wrap it around and pull it tight as you are going.
Basically keep going. Like we said you only need to protect this little bit here
to stop it from scratching as there are no marks here
if you want to you can extend it further
but that for me is plenty.
So we just need to cut it to size now,
and then you can either secure it with some
tape, good strong tape
or use some cable ties.
So I am just going to use some red cable ties so you can see it better
but of course you can use black.
Ok guys, thats it. 3 hack that cost absolutely nothing using old inner tubes
and its better for the environment as well.
let me know what you favourite one was.
Are you thinking about using any of those?
I know we are going to be using them, especially the one on the fork
which we have already been using a few days now,
and going forward will be using the bike maintenance stand
for quite a long time and I think that is really, really useful.
so yeah, let me know what you think in the comments. Have we gone crazy?
or do you think they are good ideas?
Thanks for watching. Thanks for the support and subscribing and I will catch you in the next one.
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